Discrete Probability Function Structure

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A Discrete Probability Function Structure is a probability function structure for a discrete random experiment.



References

2014

  • (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinomial_distribution Retrieved:2014-10-29.
    • … Note that, in some fields, such as natural language processing, the categorical and multinomial distributions are conflated, and it is common to speak of a "multinomial distribution" when a categorical distribution is actually meant. This stems from the fact that it is sometimes convenient to express the outcome of a categorical distribution as a "1-of-K" vector (a vector with one element containing a 1 and all other elements containing a 0) rather than as an integer in the range [math]\displaystyle{ 1 \dots K }[/math]; in this form, a categorical distribution is equivalent to a multinomial distribution over a single trial.